{"id":7483,"date":"2006-05-23T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2006-05-23T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T13:43:31","slug":"apparently-were-under-attack-from-invaders-who-want-to-colonize-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/apparently-were-under-attack-from-invaders-who-want-to-colonize-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, we&#8217;re &#8216;under attack&#8217; from &#8216;invaders&#8217; who want to &#8216;colonize&#8217; the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative [tag]Washington Times[\/tag] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20060523-124018-6944r.htm\">ran a short item<\/a> today, noting a recent floor speech from Rep. [tag]Ted Poe[\/tag], a [tag]Texas[\/tag] [tag]Republican[\/tag], on the issue of [tag]immigration[\/tag]. It&#8217;s a doozy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr. Speaker, the United States is [tag]under attack[\/tag],&#8221; Mr. Poe declared in recent days. &#8220;And like December 7, 1941, we are asleep on a Sunday morning. &#8230; We are being [tag]invaded[\/tag], we are being [tag]colonized[\/tag], and there are [tag]insurgents[\/tag] from the nation of [tag]Mexico[\/tag] and their allies further south.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, leading the charge of those who &#8220;want Mexico to [tag]occupy[\/tag] this entire land,&#8221; he charged, is Mexican President [tag]Vicente Fox[\/tag], a longtime ally of President Bush. &#8220;And it is obvious from the actions from Generalissimo Fox in Mexico that this is his intention.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, Vicente Fox, Generalissimo Fox, is really a fox in fox clothing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He stays behind the border and sends his people here and expects them to colonize and [tag]invade[\/tag] the [tag]United States[\/tag].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least we know the [tag]Republicans[\/tag]&#8217; rhetoric hasn&#8217;t gone over the top yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative [tag]Washington Times[\/tag] ran a short item today, noting a recent floor speech from Rep. [tag]Ted Poe[\/tag], a [tag]Texas[\/tag] [tag]Republican[\/tag], on the issue of [tag]immigration[\/tag]. It&#8217;s a doozy. &#8220;Mr. Speaker, the United States is [tag]under attack[\/tag],&#8221; Mr. Poe declared in recent days. &#8220;And like December 7, 1941, we are asleep on a Sunday morning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}